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S. WHEELER.

MANUFACTURE OF WRAPPING PAPER. E

No. 272,369. Patented Feb. "1-3; 1883.

U NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SETH WHEELER, OF ALBANY NEW YORK.

MANUFACTURE OF WRAPPlNG-PAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 272,369, dated February13, 1883.

A pplication filed October 24, 1882. (NomodeL) To all whom z't mayconcern.-

Be it known that l, SETH WHEELER, a citizen of the United States,residing in Albany, in the State of New York, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in the Manufacture of Wrapping-Paper, of which. thefollowing is a specification. K

This invention consists in ire-enforcing the center of a roll of paperso as to avoid the rucking up or closing of such center, and thusprevent interference with the insertion of the roller from which thepaper is unrolled for use.

The invention is especially applicable to rollpaper which is perforated,or so that it can be separated in sheets for toilet or for ordinarywrapping-paper, but is not limited to the paper when so perforated.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents areenforcing piece of paper for thecenter of the roll, with the end of a web of paper attached just beforethe winding operation commences. Fig. 2 represents the finished rollcontaining the re-enforcing piece wound into it at its center, (saidpiece being partly withdrawn to show its construction.) Fig. 8represents a modification by first winding up several layers of the endof a web of paper containing paste on the surface of such layers, so asto obtain the equivalent of the re-enforcing piece.

a is the re-enforcin g piece of paper. I) is the web of paper to berolled about the rte-enforcing piece. 0 is the shaft on which there-enforcing piece and web of paper are rolledin the machine. This heavyor re-enforcing piece of paper a is first rolled onto the shaft, passingaround it at least once, and having one of its sides lapped over ontothe other and pasted, as seen at din the drawings, Fig. 1. Then the endof the piece or long web of paper (which may be perforated, as seen ate) is attached to the heavy piece of paper a by paste, as seen atf, andthe rolling-up operation commenced. The heavy piece of paper a can beinserted after the web of paper has been rolled up and removed from theshaft in the form of a tube, having a little paste placed onto its entert riphery, to which the center of the web of paper will attach itself.The equivalent of this heavy pieceof paper a may be obtained by pastingtogether several thicknesses of the web of paper at the centerthat is,it being covered for some distance with paste, the center will roll upon the winding-shaft in a solid mass, as seen at g, Fig. 3, so that whenthe finis hed roll is withdrawn from the winding-shaft its center willhave a hard, firm wall.

I claim- As a new article of manufacture, a web or roll of-perforatedsheets of paper, to the inner end of which is attached a heavy piece ofpaper, in order to re-enforcethe open. center of said roll,substantially as and for the purpose described.

SETH WHEELER.

Witnesses E. J. WHEELER, R. M. HAMILTON.

